Ted Petoskey - Later Years

Later Years

In December 1956, Petoskey announced he was leaving the University of South Carolina to work for the New York Yankees, as a baseball scout for the Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and eastern Tennessee territory. As a Yankees' scout, he signed Duke catcher Steve Crihfield to a contract. And in 1959, when the Yankees moved spring training for their farm system to Columbia, South Carolina, Petoskey was responsible for the logistics and preparing Capital City Park. He served in the mid-1960s as the director of recreation for the South Carolina Department of Corrections. Petoskey died in Elgin, South Carolina at age 85 in 1996.

His son Ted Petoskey, Jr., followed his father playing end in American football. Ted, Jr., was chosen to play end for the South Carolina high school team in the 1959 Shrine Bowl against the North Carolina team, and was named South Carolina high school AAA Lineman of the Year. He went on to play end for the Clemson Tigers football team from 1962 to 1964.